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If the Services are made available to you through an organization (e.g., your employer), we retain your information as long as required by the administrator of your account.
We may continue to retain some information even after you delete your account if we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws.
After you submit a request to delete your account, we initiate a deletion process to safely and completely remove your data from our servers or retain it only in anonymized form.
"Affirm will retain your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and any applicable state or federal law, rule or regulation.Excerpt from Affirm's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “Affirm will retain your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and any applicable state or federal law, rule or regulation.”
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